Portfolio : sketches of Fiji and Tonga, ca. 1846-1859 / by Wesleyan Missionaries
Portfolio : sketches of Fiji and Tonga, ca. 1846-1859 / by Wesleyan Missionaries
Portfolio : sketches of Fiji and Tonga, ca. 1846-1859 / by Wesleyan Missionaries
About this item
Full title
Author / Creator
Date
ca. 1846-1859
Call Numbers
DL PX 74
Record Identifier
Reference Code
Physical Description
Contents
1 portfolio (79 drawings) - various sizes - pencil, ink, watercolour, pencil and wash, pencil and watercolour, and pencil with white highlighter
Other Descriptions
Level of description
Fonds
Access and use
Issue Copy
Copy print : DL PX 74
Available on open access in the Mitchell Library Reading Room
Finding aids
Contents list available in the Mitchell Library Reading Room -
Research notes available in Mitchell Library Reading Room , PXn 74-75 -
Research notes available on request DL PX 74n and DL PX 75n -
Subjects
More information
Scope and Contents
Contents
Contents list filed with collection.
DL PX 74
F.1 [Rocky hill (similar to F.10)]
F.2 [View of a town]
F.3 [Woman and child outside hut]
F.4 [Horse chasing villagers]
F.5 Televa - Bua
F.6 Training Institution, Tonga - [cf. DL PX 75, F.29] Denotes those catalogued separately
F.7 Kava ring
F.8 Fai Toka
F.9 Tava fa...
Alternative Titles
Full title
Portfolio : sketches of Fiji and Tonga, ca. 1846-1859 / by Wesleyan Missionaries
Authors, Artists and Contributors
Author / Creator
Notes
General note
Fifty one of the sketches are reproduced in a portfolio of prints held at DL PX 75.
Two unsigned letters have been removed and placed in Dixson Library manuscripts.
See also notes under Wesleyan Missionaries - MSV.
Signature / Inscriptions
Nine are signed by F.W., C.N., & E.M.F., five are dated and forty eight are titled.
Description source
Information transferred from Pictures Card Catalogue as part of the eRecords Project, 2008-2009.
Contextual Information
Source
Bequeathed by Sir William Dixson, 1952
Spencer List number: 50p
Identifiers
Primary Identifiers
Call Numbers
DL PX 74
Record Identifier
nQR2NGZ1
Permalink
https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/nQR2NGZ1
Other Identifiers
Reference code
862554
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